My Response to Alexis's Blog 8

I was also fascinated by Borges life, and most specifically the young age when he began. To be completely honest, I remember when I was in about first or second grade I asked my mom why we had a thermos in our cabinet that had Harry Potter on it and who that was. She answered "Oh that's a really big book, you'll see one day". If I couldn't read Harry Potter by that age, I find it truly incredible that this little boy was reading the classic stories he was, and writing as well, which I used to hate doing at that age. I recently watched Matilda while babysitting, and this makes me think of her, and how she was reading Moby Dick in first grade, and was incredibly smart for her age. I also found it interesting not only that the head injury from "The South" actually happened to him, and did indeed have very negative effects. To me, being blind is on of my worst fears, and so to imagine loving reading like Borges did really makes me think of how much he lost when he lost his vision. It really was a true love of his to continue writing and have others read to him, but it could not have been anything like what he used to have in reading. Like you, I found Borges to be an interesting individual, especially at a young age.